The Manor House is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Country house.

The Manor House

WRENN ID
winding-marble-khaki
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1956
Type
Country house
Address
The Manor House, Piddletrenthide
OS grid reference
SY 703 999
Coordinates
50.79871, -2.42206
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Manor House is a late 18th-century country house that underwent modifications and gained a third storey in 1832. It has rendered walls and a hipped slate roof with stacks in various locations. The building is three storeys high with a semi-basement and features a symmetrical east front with five bays. The sash windows have glazing bars and are set within moulded stone architraves. The central window on the first floor is a Palladian style, and there is a cornice above the first-floor windows. A projecting porch with a balustraded parapet leads to the entrance, which is approached by curved double flights of stone steps with iron balustrades. The other facades include 19th-century bow windows and some reset 17th-century stone mullioned windows in the semi-basement.

Inside, there is an open string staircase with a moulded mahogany handrail and reeded cast iron balusters with volute capitals, along with an octagonal newel post featuring palm-leaf capitals. The principal rooms are adorned with moulded and enriched cornices, and the chimney piece on the second floor has a frieze decorated with a human mask and flower swags.

Local climate

The Manor House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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